Spectrum, 1956-09-13

              the spectrum number 1 volume 7 m university of buffalo thursday sept 13 1956 complete ampns overage automation takes over enrollment long frustrating lines may be a past tradition friday when a room of thumping and clicking electron ic equipment takes charge of re gistration used on a trial basis last fall sufficient ibm equipment has been installed to make registration com pletely automatic this year a master registration card will be your secretary filling out the many forms you would have lab ored over last semester this mas ter card will imprint your name and student number on a class card obtained from each instructor as you select your courses m the gym the class card eliminates the line-slowing hand-written lists of students that formerly were kept by the instructors it also will print the lists that admit you to your classes automatic machines will never completely replace the brain of man but simple decisions that can be numerically coded may soon be performed by automatic machin ery explained kenneth robinson supervisor of the campus service 1.8.m bureau mr robinson said plans are be ing made to increase the automa tion of grade reports and billing grades were formerly sent to stu dents as a photographic transcript after entry by hand on permanent records automatic billing used on a trial basis during the summer session prints a listing of a student's courses and computes his charges from class cards the machine pro cedure greatly reduces any possi bility of error and may be used for other school years 1,700 frosh exploring campus registration receptions tours slated this year's freshman class explores the campus today guided by upperclassmen through a packed schedule of orientation week activities freshman registration will con tinue until 1 o'clock when the first of two convocations will be held m clark gym acting chancellor claude e puffer will address both gatherings made necessary by the class size more than 1,700 freshmen are expected for enrollment m all ub divisions registrar emma e deters said yesterday the total expected enrollment m both night and day divisions is 11,100 two dean's receptions m arts and sciences and dgts this after noon at 4:30 o'clock start a five day round of social activities the story of campus fraternity and so rority life will be told tonight at 8 o'clock m a greek night held by ifc and pan-hellenic members the campus tours at 1 and 2 o'clock are important orientation chairman millie mcdermott ad vised it is difficult for new stu dents to locate class room locations and buildings activities tomorrow include a transfer students coffee hour and a men's meeting at 3:30 o'clock a traditional social event the frosh hop will be launched by a splash party m clark gym at 7:30 o'clock activities chairman john allen said the nine-piece band se lected features an ability to get everyone dancing red green and blue flares streaming across campus thursday night will light a snake dance to the campus-wide rally starting at 7:15 o'clock before norton the marchers will fire the 1956 foot ball season and meet their team with a bonfire on rotary field le land jones will lead his traditional lion hunt with martial airs by the ub afrotc band location of the baby bull may not reprieve culprits captured by the sophomore court but its pres entation to vice-chancellor puffer will end their dink wearing the bull was not located last year walking through the chancell or's reception line friday at 8 o'clock freshmen will meet the uni versity's top brass and have their first and only free day m norton union all games refreshments and activities m the flower-decked union will be free including danc ing to two bands provided by the recreation committee the world-famous ub chess club will sponsor exhibition matches at the open house at 9 o'clock win ners m a ten-second move game may enroll m the club at half-price president frank fink said a hillel tea at 2 o'clock and a student christian association re ception at 7:30 o'clock will be held sunday on sept 30 the newman club will hold a reception for new students reading course to be offered to aid the digestion of college material a reading course will be offered this semester on a non credit free basis to students desir ing to increase their speed infor mation may be obtained from dean of students office hayes hall bare-headed frosh court-ing trouble beware the sophomore court . .â–  three judges from the spanish in quisition were recently enrolled as â–  ub transfer students and have vol unteered for legal advisors to the orientation day guardians those dinks are really very use ful we are told and prevent sun stroke m the torrid buffalo climate to ensure that frosh health is not impaired a committee of sopho mores will check suspicious indi viduals without dinks who are try ing hard to look like an upper classman how to look like an upper-class man ... be nonchalant dress care lessly and sit at the back of all classes the freshman can be im mediately spotted by the number of books he carries a sophomore carries three or four new ones a junior one or two beat-up volumes and a senior may be noted by his one dog-eared college digest use care m selecting courses on registration day most freshman programs are well planned m ad vance but a good system to use is poundage weigh the value of a course by the size of its books a good snap course should only weigh about 9 ounces while beware those four-pound english survey texts ' watch solicitous upper-classmen who will tip you on snap courses it seems to be a ub tradition that easy schedules are rotated year ' ly enter into the fun with an ' open mind and a good eraser re membering that those dinks really ' represent two-bits worth of your orientation fee the frosh who forgets his dink is apt to end m the sophomore clink 14 not too young to enter college if you're superior after five years experience with an early-admission program which transforms superior high-school sophomores and juniors into col lege freshmen goucher college at towson near baltimore md has found that these young pupils meld well into the educational pack the new york times reports although some of them arrive on the campus at the early age of 14 years with but ten years of pre college training they manage to adjust themselves to the academic and social changes the experiment was started m 1951 when the fund for the ad vancement of education ford foundation gave grants to twelve colleges and universities to deter mine the effectiveness of early ad missions goucher was the only women's college participating it has now taken another more intimate look after the fifth year which it underwrote with its own scholarships and has come up with some new observations in our opinion it is very doubt ful that the so-called enrichment programs m the high school can meet as well as a college or uni versity the total intellectual and social needs of patently superior students the report stated the students m the experiment were selected principally on the basis of their performance m the college entrance examination board aptitude and achievement tests the report continued queried about social adjustment new buildings soon to rise on campus the throb of diesel engine marks orientation week 1956 as work proceeds m a record-breaking university building program two buildings are now undei construction and plans call for ar i atomic reactor for ub research i the first to be completed on the niagara frontier a 11-story dormitory with a ca pacity of 448 students is receiving its first cement foundations and will include a cafeteria with ex pendable facilities to feed more than 700 students receiving the first digging oper ations m a decade the old quarry on the northwest end of campus is the scene of a 1,000,000 fine arts center the first of three pro posed units a two-story building will include class rooms band and choir theatres plus studios for vis ual and fine arts including typog raphy photography ceramics and sculpture completion is tenta tively scheduled for september 1957 a physics building m back of hochstetter hall is ready for oc cupancy this year and will be a new addition to the growing ub facilities a warning was issued to all stu dents by housing director william j o'connor we are fencing off the entire front area of the dorms as we have already had several minor accidents the excavations and steam shovels at work make this area very dangerous all the dorms must be entered from rear entrances we are put ting m new roads and sidewalks that should be completed this month the health office can only be reached through the parking lot to the rear of michael hall bread untouched by human hands will pop up m the norton battered khakis and bermudas here to stay tips for the campus wardrobe what will be the 1956 style of ub freshmen or has there ever been one millie mcdermott orien tation week chairman said new students soon drop their snappy charcoal greys and adopt the un fashionable campus fashions battered khakis for boys and bermudas for girls are here to stay she regretfully said fresh men girls soon learn that short haircuts are almost a necessity m the prevailing winds constantly sweeping the campus the darkest winter day still brings forth girls m shorts and knee socks but these only show continued on page 2 continued on page 2 continued on page 2